Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,535 6,378 7,002
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.02% 23.32% 19.91%
As % of the General category 34.41% 36.66% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,398 4,278 4,881
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £422 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 113 193
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.43 £14.30
25th Percentile £21.42 £20.86 £20.74
Median hourly rate £42.48 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -2.86% +28.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.90 £76.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.13% -12.86% +28.49%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,805 17,396 20,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 63.62% 57.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,882 11,107 12,994
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £748 £752 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 911 1,473
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -28.00% +21.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.58 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.17% -25.71% +14.68%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,141 £583 -2.88% 3,226
North of England 0 1,312 £500 +5.26% 853
South East -1 734 £503 -3.13% 920
North West 0 692 £492 +9.33% 468
Midlands +1 645 £500 +11.11% 462
Yorkshire 0 569 £518 +6.18% 284
West Midlands +1 495 £500 +2.67% 263
South West -4 382 £525 -4.55% 360
East of England +7 209 £530 -5.78% 231
East Midlands -3 144 £500 +19.05% 198
North East -18 51 £500 +14.29% 108
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 288 (3.37%) Confluence
2 218 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 71 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 49 (0.57%) Apache
6 39 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) CMS
8 27 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 27 (0.32%) SAS
9 15 (0.18%) CICS
10 14 (0.16%) IIS
11 12 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.14%) Camunda
11 12 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 8 (0.094%) WebLogic
14 6 (0.070%) Appian
15 5 (0.059%) WordPress
16 4 (0.047%) JBoss
17 3 (0.035%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 454 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 153 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 61 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.094%) Trello
9 6 (0.070%) Sketch
10 5 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.059%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.059%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
12 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 2 (0.023%) InVision
13 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 317 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 114 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 104 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 89 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
5 81 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
6 63 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 56 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
8 51 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
8 51 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
9 46 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
10 38 (0.45%) Aladdin
10 38 (0.45%) SAP FI
11 34 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
12 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
12 29 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 27 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
14 26 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
15 22 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
15 22 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
16 20 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,377 (16.13%) Azure
2 989 (11.59%) AWS
3 580 (6.80%) Power Platform
4 447 (5.24%) GCP
5 295 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (3.42%) SaaS
7 262 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
8 240 (2.81%) GitHub
9 209 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 190 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 178 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 130 (1.52%) Serverless
13 111 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 106 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 104 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 94 (1.10%) dbt
16 94 (1.10%) OCI
17 92 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
18 91 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
19 85 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.03%) Firewall
2 131 (1.53%) Network Security
3 88 (1.03%) VPN
4 83 (0.97%) DNS
5 58 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.55%) BGP
7 46 (0.54%) WAN
8 39 (0.46%) DHCP
8 39 (0.46%) SSL
9 33 (0.39%) LAN
10 32 (0.37%) Multicast
11 31 (0.36%) HTTP
12 30 (0.35%) OSPF
13 25 (0.29%) VLAN
14 22 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
14 22 (0.26%) Wireless
15 21 (0.25%) Internet
15 21 (0.25%) MPLS
16 17 (0.20%) SAN
16 17 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (5.73%) Power BI
2 251 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 233 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (1.94%) Metadata
5 156 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 144 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 128 (1.50%) Tableau
8 122 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 76 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 70 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 60 (0.70%) Big Data
12 60 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 51 (0.60%) MongoDB
14 49 (0.57%) Power Query
14 49 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
15 46 (0.54%) Delta Lake
16 43 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 36 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 605 (7.09%) JIRA
2 223 (2.61%) Git
3 144 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 85 (1.00%) GitLab
5 49 (0.57%) JUnit
6 40 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 38 (0.45%) Selenium
8 27 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 25 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 24 (0.28%) ERwin
11 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.26%) Postman
12 22 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 21 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 20 (0.23%) Maven
14 20 (0.23%) Zephyr
15 19 (0.22%) MLflow
16 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
17 16 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
18 15 (0.18%) ER Studio
General
1 2,476 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 1,630 (19.10%) Banking
3 1,197 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 478 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 400 (4.69%) Legal
6 335 (3.93%) Financial Institution
7 316 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 315 (3.69%) Front Office
8 315 (3.69%) Investment Banking
9 306 (3.59%) Retail
10 227 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
11 196 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 161 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 156 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 148 (1.73%) Local Government
15 140 (1.64%) Billing
15 140 (1.64%) Marketing
16 134 (1.57%) General Ledger
17 131 (1.53%) Law
18 124 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,263 (14.80%) Analyst
2 954 (11.18%) Senior
3 937 (10.98%) Lead
4 862 (10.10%) Developer
5 785 (9.20%) Architect
6 633 (7.42%) Business Analyst
7 609 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 525 (6.15%) Consultant
9 294 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 282 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 214 (2.51%) Senior Manager
12 207 (2.43%) Financial Analyst
13 185 (2.17%) Accountant
14 182 (2.13%) Data Analyst
15 180 (2.11%) Java Developer
16 172 (2.02%) Programme Manager
17 167 (1.96%) Software Engineer
18 165 (1.93%) IT Manager
19 162 (1.90%) Senior Developer
20 157 (1.84%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (3.28%) REST
2 261 (3.06%) .NET
3 254 (2.98%) React
4 237 (2.78%) Kafka
5 198 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 175 (2.05%) Middleware
7 159 (1.86%) Spring
8 152 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.39%) RESTful
10 117 (1.37%) PySpark
11 112 (1.31%) Redux
12 107 (1.25%) Node.js
13 84 (0.98%) AngularJS
14 83 (0.97%) JSON
15 78 (0.91%) OAuth
16 77 (0.90%) XML
17 59 (0.69%) CSS
17 59 (0.69%) SOAP
18 58 (0.68%) .NET Framework
19 56 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 420 (4.92%) Onboarding
2 395 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 361 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 243 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 210 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 208 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 163 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 163 (1.91%) Fixed Income
8 158 (1.85%) Derivative
9 155 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 150 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 149 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 148 (1.73%) Virtual Team
13 124 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 120 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
15 116 (1.36%) Equities
16 103 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 98 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
18 95 (1.11%) Security Posture
19 92 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 312 (3.66%) Windows
2 264 (3.09%) Linux
3 141 (1.65%) Unix
4 69 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 39 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.45%) Solaris
7 37 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 34 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 30 (0.35%) Android
10 28 (0.33%) zOS
11 26 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.21%) AIX
13 10 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.094%) VMS
15 6 (0.070%) HPUX
15 6 (0.070%) SUSE
16 5 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.047%) MVS
18 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,921 (22.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,776 (20.81%) Agile
3 1,205 (14.12%) Migration
4 1,110 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
5 1,034 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 977 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 955 (11.19%) AI
8 911 (10.67%) DevOps
9 881 (10.32%) CI/CD
10 871 (10.21%) Analytics
11 848 (9.94%) ERP
12 810 (9.49%) Decision-Making
13 743 (8.71%) Roadmaps
14 728 (8.53%) Validation
15 692 (8.11%) Data Modelling
16 677 (7.93%) Project Management
17 642 (7.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 637 (7.46%) Change Management
19 607 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
20 556 (6.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,143 (13.39%) SQL
2 1,042 (12.21%) Python
3 578 (6.77%) Java
4 362 (4.24%) C#
5 243 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 242 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 215 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 92 (1.08%) Bash
9 82 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 70 (0.82%) Go
11 67 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 65 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 63 (0.74%) C++
14 60 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 48 (0.56%) VBA
16 46 (0.54%) Bicep
17 37 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.41%) Scala
19 31 (0.36%) Apex Code
20 26 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 683 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 665 (7.79%) Degree
3 490 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 215 (2.52%) PMP
5 190 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 187 (2.19%) ACCA
7 164 (1.92%) CIMA
8 146 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 146 (1.71%) CISSP
9 114 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 113 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 91 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 80 (0.94%) CISM
13 72 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 66 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
15 55 (0.64%) AWS Certification
16 49 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 44 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 37 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 33 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 547 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 364 (4.26%) QA
3 335 (3.93%) PMO
4 264 (3.09%) GDPR
5 151 (1.77%) NIST
6 124 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 102 (1.20%) IFRS
8 97 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 95 (1.11%) SLA
10 87 (1.02%) GRC
11 80 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 60 (0.70%) GAAP
13 54 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 50 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 35 (0.41%) SEPA
15 35 (0.41%) Solvency II
16 29 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 26 (0.30%) PSD2
18 25 (0.29%) COBIT
19 24 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 245 (2.87%) Docker
2 201 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.30%) vSphere
6 20 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.15%) NFS
8 13 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.070%) IAG
10 6 (0.070%) KVM
11 5 (0.059%) GPFS
11 5 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.035%) ACF2
13 3 (0.035%) GridGain
13 3 (0.035%) SRDF
14 2 (0.023%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 371 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 283 (3.32%) Terraform
3 144 (1.69%) Ansible
4 86 (1.01%) Grafana
5 74 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 66 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (0.57%) SCCM
9 26 (0.30%) Control-M
10 19 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.19%) vRealize
13 14 (0.16%) Nessus
14 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.15%) Argo
14 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Packer
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,138 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 719 (8.42%) Oracle
3 653 (7.65%) SAP
4 312 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 263 (3.08%) Databricks
6 210 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 181 (2.12%) Google
8 126 (1.48%) Workday
9 120 (1.41%) IBM
9 120 (1.41%) VMware
10 105 (1.23%) Splunk
11 97 (1.14%) Cisco
12 83 (0.97%) CyberArk
13 60 (0.70%) Citrix
13 60 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 55 (0.64%) Ariba
14 55 (0.64%) Sage
15 51 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 44 (0.52%) Informatica
17 43 (0.50%) Murex